PFD may be losing agents, but it retains the valuable backlist, which comprises the rights to books, plays and films that are not part of the current year's budget.
The author, who writes as EO Chirovici, was signed up by the first British agency he tried, Peters Fraser and Dunlop (PFD), after he was rejected by six US agents.
Pat Kavanagh came from South Africa to England in 1964 and joined AD Peters, later PFD, as a literary agent in 1968.
Essentially, for most presidential candidates, a personal financial disclosure (PFD) will capture their salaries, or investment income.
The assets may have grown in number over the last year, as the PFD shows; the revenue stream may have increased.
As he wrote "PFD" — present for duty — he became aware of two lieutenants in plainclothes standing on either side of him.
And they feel they deserved their bonuses because they brought in lots of lucrative work.At present PFD still has many of the best and brightest stars in British literature, theatre and film under contract.
PFD's troubles were the hottest topic at the book fair in Frankfurt last week.
The defectors suspect that their phones are tapped and their e-mails read.Ms Michel, meanwhile, has set herself the goal of making PFD a European version of William Morris, which is more aggressive in style and pushes harder for cross-fertilisation among books, films and plays.
PFD agents talked to journalists and other agents and publishers who in turn offered their version of events to the press.
They also claim that PFD's agents have spent the past six years taking big bonuses and commissions for themselves without doing much to expand the business.
